City of Life and Death (2009)

Kernel Score: 85% · 235 ratings

Genres: Drama, History, War

Released: 2009-04-22

Runtime: 132 minutes

Overview

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

Director

Lu Chuan

Cast

• Liu Ye as Lu Jianxiong
• Gao Yuanyuan as Miss Jiang
• Hideo Nakaizumi as Kadokawa
• John Paisley as John Rabe
• Beverly Peckous as Minnie Vautrin
• Fan Wei as Mr. Tang
• Qin Lan as Mrs. Tang
• Ryu Kohata as Officer Osamu Ida
• Jiang Yiyan as 'Xiao Jiang' Jiang Xiangjun
• Yao Di as 'May' Zhou Xiaomei